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Change log/ new features in XXALJ3

India got a new ota update this morning with a LJ3 build
Here's my change log/what's new in this update from Sammy boys beast galaxy note 2 N7100 build XXALJ3
1.The led on charging has been fixed from low dim red to bright red ( but this issue still exists in leaked jelly rom for s3 glad sammy fixed this on the note 2)
2. The battery life has been increased also noticed that Android or android os test in battery usage is missing. After 2 hours I lost about 2 % on battery with 8 % on screen and device idel.
3. Smart rotation for YouTube has been fixed and smart stay seems to pick my face within a sec without the indication on status bar
4. Opening an app from multi view/multi window animation has been improved.. It doesn't feel a bit laggy like before.
5. Im not sure about this but on camera if your choosing between front and back there's a new animation icon
6. The web browser tab zooms in instead of side cha cha step
7. The keywords on stock keyboard predictions have been improved and accurate.
Things that haven't changed
1. The apex transparency issue in touchwiz hasn't been fixed ( I doubt samsung will provide a fix but hopefully the apex dev comes up with something)
2. The air view doesn't work on Google chrome like on web browser I can scroll down while hovering the screen.
3. Screen recorder hasn't been added yet.
Next wishlist for 4.1.2 ( if a samsung dev happens to see this post *Fingers crossed*)
1 . Please include Google + and Facebook messenger on multi window (if a power hungry apps like chrome or YouTube works I don't see why these apps didn't make the list)
2. Please do fix the transparency issue on apex and nova launcher.
3.please include an option to wake the screen using flip covers.
4. 5x5 icons on the Homescreen
5. Ability to hide the side bar on the picture Gallery.
6. FONT size issue
7. Auto keywords after a space bar press from stock keyboard
8. Status bar fix (we prefer the black status bar from ics(S3) the grey status bar on jelly might be a huge problem in the future and it looks odd on full brightness).
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nova fixed the transparency issue 3 betas ago.

Oops my bad I used the older version of nova to see if they fixed the issue but sad the apex hasn't fixed it like when I scroll from page to page using apex the widget transparency still exists.. a huge boner for guys like me who depends on widgets..
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eyan2011 said:
Oops my bad I used the older version of nova to see if they fixed the issue but sad the apex hasn't fixed it like when I scroll from page to page using apex the widget transparency still exists.. a huge boner for guys like me who depends on widgets..
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If you use the latest stable official version from nova launcher then yes the problem still exists. But the transparency thing is fixed when you upgrade to a beta version (you can do that within the nova launcher settings).

We need also in the next update :-
(1) 5x5 icons on the Homescreen
(2) Ability to hide the side bar on the picture Gallery.

JulyDerek said:
(2) Ability to hide the side bar on the picture Gallery.
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second that, or at least some sort of scroll-bar!!

Update also adds better prediction and new features..
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sumeshd said:
Update also adds better prediction and new features..
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does it add the auto complete with space barTo the stock Keyboard?
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My wishlist....
- They need to fix the font bug -. If you set the font size to Tiny in either the system or the email client it doesnt set to tiny in the list of emails. (before anyone asks this worked on the old note 1)
- It would be great if they set the status bar color to black black and not some greyish black.
- 5x5 on the home screen plus reduce the margins and wasted space on the home screen.

Just got my Note 2, 3 hours ago. I got 3 updates in a row. And you what I love it. My god the screen is absolutely stunning.
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Why limits to 5x5 home screen ? Just gives us the choice like on Nova launcher, i'm using 6 rows x 5 colmuns, perfect for using apps and widgets on home screen

You won't see 4.1.2 for a month or two.
Frustrations has just started.
But otherwise to me, still one of the best devices ever made.

Please make this a general thread where u can post all updates along with changlogs.
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Livebyte said:
You won't see 4.1.2 for a month or two.
Frustrations has just started.
But otherwise to me, still one of the best devices ever made.
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I honestly don't see anything too exciting on 4.1.2
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JulyDerek said:
I honestly don't see anything too exciting on 4.1.2
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Agreed I guess key lime pie should be something better than jellybean well I manually flashed the nexus 7 to 4.1.2
Only features I found interesting was the one finger notification expansion, screen rotation and slick widgets and it faster a 10 4th bug free from before. ..
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Ummmm I haven't done the general topic before how do I do it
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eyan2011 said:
Ummmm I haven't done the general topic before how do I do it
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Just change the title to "changelog/new update features for latest updates" and pm a mod to make it a sticky..
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eyan2011 said:
India got a new ota update this morning with a LJ3 build
Here's my change log/what's new in this update from Sammy boys beast galaxy note 2 N7100 build XXALJ3
1.The led on charging has been fixed from low dim red to bright red ( but this issue still exists in leaked jelly rom for s3 glad sammy fixed this on the note 2)
2. The battery life has been increased also noticed that Android or android os test in battery usage is missing. After 2 hours I lost about 2 % on battery with 8 % on screen and device idel.
3. Smart rotation for YouTube has been fixed and smart stay seems to pick my face within a sec without the indication on status bar
4. Opening an app from multi view/multi window animation has been improved.. It doesn't feel a bit laggy like before.
5. Im not sure about this but on camera if your choosing between front and back there's a new animation icon
6. The web browser tab zooms in instead of side cha cha step
7. The keywords on stock keyboard predictions have been improved and accurate.
Things that haven't changed
1. The apex transparency issue in touchwiz hasn't been fixed ( I doubt samsung will provide a fix but hopefully the apex dev comes up with something)
2. The air view doesn't work on Google chrome like on web browser I can scroll down while hovering the screen.
3. Screen recorder hasn't been added yet.
Next wishlist for 4.1.2 ( if a samsung dev happens to see this post *Fingers crossed*)
1 . Please include Google + and Facebook messenger on multi window (if a power hungry apps like chrome or YouTube works I don't see why these apps didn't make the list)
2. Please do fix the transparency issue on apex and nova launcher.
3.please include an option to wake the screen using flip covers.
4. 5x5 icons on the Homescreen
5. Ability to hide the side bar on the picture Gallery.
6. FONT size issue
7. Auto keywords after a space bar press from stock keyboard
8. Status bar fix (we prefer the black status bar from ics(S3) the grey status bar on jelly might be a huge problem in the future and it looks odd on full brightness).
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"The led on charging issue has not been fixed from low dim red to bright red"

Flashed alj3 and damn it is smoother than alj1. Also now my phone is cold as ice even with hardcore usage

[4.2]Tablet UI on Android 4.2?

I've just upgraded to Android 4.2 and noticed the lack of tablet ui when I changed the DPI.
Is there any watt till get it back or has it been fully removed? I loved the old UI.
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pankomputerek said:
I've just upgraded to Android 4.2 and noticed the lack of tablet ui when I changed the DPI.
Is there any watt till get it back or has it been fully removed? I loved the old UI.
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Yeah, WTF happened? Just did the same. 160 dpi with the 213 dpi gui? No thanks.

the update has unified the tablet UI... look at the nexus 10 and you will see you are now running the "tablet' UI. there is no split in UI like there was before (ie. no tablet and phablet difference)

Of course there are changes in 160dpi. It's not the same as 213, Youtube is still totally different, market, gmail. Just navigation and notification bar are splited. But Yeah, old ui was much better. There is too much wasted space in new UI

Hopefully some custom ROMs will add this in. Its a shame, I used to be able to operate with almost one hand and now I need the other to use the notifications. Some things were added tipi the top right quick settings but I really want it on the bottom.
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That's exactly what I suspected, no tablet UI included. I am definitely won't update to this. Let's hope the community will fix that.

They're doing away with the old tablet UI to unify the devices.
-Brought to you by Marino's Galaxy Nexus-

Yeah, and that is dumb as hell in my opinion!

i dont think it is necessarily dumb. i believe it is important to not have a split experience when it comes to your OS. If you want something different that is what custom ROMs are for. But for what google is putting out they want everyone to have a similar experience no matter what device they are on. that way going from your phone to a tablet is more natural

Using Tablet UI, I experienced accidentally pressing the Nav buttons and expanding the status bar while playing games. I think keeping the buttons away from where the fingers will accidentally press them is not dumb at all. I hope they find a better way to implement Tablet UI.

When I saw that the Nexus 10 had the new UI, I feared that this would happen.

Just flashed 4.2 and it was such a pity to discover that there's no tablet ui (( I liked it so much

nickriley said:
Just flashed 4.2 and it was such a pity to discover that there's no tablet ui (( I liked it so much
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Seems tablet ui is being worked on for 4.2...
Here's some files you can beta test:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
Let me know (or better yet, the dev), if they work.

ace7196 said:
Seems tablet ui is being worked on for 4.2...
Here's some files you can beta test:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
Let me know (or better yet, the dev), if they work.
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Gotta give this a try when i get home! very nice! Thank you!
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Now we can have multiple user accounts on our Nexus 7... I'm wondering if it's possible to have one user running at 213 dpi and another at 160 dpi, so have different resolutions per user?
I read it's a change to the system build properties file in a thread about tablet UI, so I imagine it wouldn't be that hard for some savvy person to write a script to swap that at user logon, like in a .profile or similar, if android has those. I guess it must run as root, which is surely achievable on a rooted device... :fingers-crossed:

Key Lime Pie
Hopefully Google will figure something out for Key Lime Pie, unified UI is good for noobies but power users like us want something more and that's why we went with android.

Resize nav buttons?

Any custom rom that can re-size the navigation buttons, so we can have more screen?
I want to keep them in the same place but make them smaller. They take up to much of the sceen.

search dev forums and if they have it, they'll say it under the list of the many features

AOKP
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Codefire x does it as well and I think Paranoid Android too in tablet mode.
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Catchpen said:
Codefire x does it as well and I think Paranoid Android too in tablet mode.
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I have tweaked the necessary files so you can update the stock ROM with a thinner nav bar, however you need a rooted device and unlocked boot loader, so you might as well go the full custom ROM which will give you more options over the nav bar, such as choosing your own size.
Regards
Phil

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Hi
I have tweaked the necessary files so you can update the stock ROM with a thinner nav bar, however you need a rooted device and unlocked boot loader, so you might as well go the full custom ROM which will give you more options over the nav bar, such as choosing your own size.
Regards
Phil
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Hey Phil, how did you go about making your nav bar thinner? I want to stick to stock and am just adding small mods and the thickness of the nav bar really gets to me.

Liquidsmooth has nav bar resizing.

PA has navbar sizing, you can scale it down to zero if you want
tablet UI (statusbar and navbar are one) +phablet +per app dpi and UI control overall
expanded desktop
and expanded desktop on per app basis where is basically shifts into that mode for apps you define that way
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9cd5s1fst0uao3t/Screenshot_2013-01-03-02-52-35.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0nr6g6ockph8l9z/Screenshot_2013-01-03-02-53-03.png

What is PA? Do you have to be rooted to use it? Thanks.
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white note said:
What is PA? Do you have to be rooted to use it? Thanks.
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It's a custom ROM, and you have to be rooted to install any custom ROM.
I highly recommend PA over other custom ROMs. I just recently decided to see the status of CM10.1 and immediately restored my backup of PA. There are some nice things about other ROMs (AOKP retains the old 2.x behavior of selecting which app to launch such that you don't have to make 2 presses to open with an app only once), but all of them are pretty early in their development. PA can be modified the same way the other ROMs can, but the underlying ability to select both the dpi and layout of an app is invaluable.
I'm stuck with PA, and glad for it!

I'd throw my hat in for AOKP, it's got more customisation than any of the other ROM's and to be fair is now on milestone stable releases.

It depends on what you call customization. Apps are where you hopefully spend 95% of your time using your device, they are what makes your phone worthwhile. Curiously here you have virtually zero customization although the potential is the largest that android has to offer. Buttons and tweaks pale if you could see what's hidden in your everyday apps, if you have a way to tap into it that is.
ps. here's an example
this is how a normal rom uses the screen: http://www.abload.de/img/2013-01-04-15.02g2z5f.jpg
this is how pa can use the screen (and the hidden capabilities in any app): http://www.abload.de/img/n4-product-heroe5z5z.jpg
pa does that optionally. you can switch between UI's app per app. also tab-UI is optional and separate. you could run gtalk like that in any interface UI.
now literally hundreds of apps can do that, pretty much all google apps, tons of apps coming out everyday making good use of the screen now where nexus7 and 10 have established a market for bigger displays.

New launcher (JB 4.2.1)

Regarding the new stock launcher in JB 4.2.1 (and beyond?)...
1) How do I now switch from the three CPU performance mode? (power saving/balanced/performance)
2) How do I quickly switch wifi, GPS etc on/off without having to go to the settings?
3) The new slim bar at the top, takes up extra space? We now have even less available screen space than before?
I feel slightly annoyed by Google's idea of progress... in similar fashion to the recent YouTube app updates, the philosophy seems to be: remove features and rearrange stuff.
What do you think?
(I've posted this in the WW 4.2.1 update thread, but I think it deserves its own thread. This is not about the 4.2.1 update in general, it's about the new stock launcher)

Evan_ said:
Regarding the new stock launcher in JB 4.2.1 (and beyond?)...
1) How do I now switch from the three CPU performance mode? (power saving/balanced/performance)
2) How do I quickly switch wifi, GPS etc on/off without having to go to the settings?
3) The new slim bar at the top, takes up extra space? We now have even less available screen space than before?
I feel slightly annoyed by Google's idea of progress... in similar fashion to the recent YouTube app updates, the philosophy seems to be: remove features and rearrange stuff.
What do you think?
(I've posted this in the WW 4.2.1 update thread, but I think it deserves its own thread.This is not about the 4.2.1 update in general, it's about the new stock launcher)
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Just switch back to the old launcher in the settings menu.

monsterduc1000 said:
Just switch back to the old launcher in the settings menu.
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Thanks, I saw that option. But it is not a guarantee that it will be there ad infinitum. I wanted to make this post because maybe there is something I was missing in the new launcher.

i believe in 4.2.2 google added a long press functionality to the quick toggles to allow them to be turned on/off quickly. i know i have it on cm10.1 on my phone...
I used the new launcher for about 5 mins before reverting to the old one. I'm sorry, but it's just not practical for a tablet!
also, is it just me or is the multitasking ui kind of dumb?
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I switched mine to the new launcher (after checking here that I would be able to revert).
I don't think I lasted even a minute. I actually said ew! out loud.
Did not like that the entire bottom is just the three soft buttons, and centered as well, so i can't reach it with my thumb (I use the tablet almost exclusively in landscape mode). There may be a way to change that, but I also didn't care for the time in the small font up top either.
I hope they never force us to use that launcher. I guess there's always Nova Launcher, which I use on my phone, but don't on the tablet.
Thanks,
Brian

The 4.2 tablet UI works really well on the N7, but doesn't feel quite right on the 10.1" tabs. I really like having the dock back though, and while I appreciate the 'four corners' approach to the Honeycomb UI, I prefer having everything within my thumbs' reach. If Google used an inverted phone shade in the lower right and the on-screen buttons in the lower left for the future tablet UI, I think we'd have a winner.

Even with Nova launcher you still get the same layout.
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i actually like the idea of three buttons home back recent apps in the center, so i don't have to reach my hand to the left side, i also like that's there are 2 "notification centers" (one is the "real", the other is quick settings). but i don't like to have 2 bars on top and bottom, so i switched to the old style,
i guess i'll use the new style if they combine the 2 bars into one
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nooktablet said:
i actually like the idea of three buttons home back recent apps in the center, so i don't have to reach my hand to the left side, i also like that's there are 2 "notification centers" (one is the "real", the other is quick settings). but i don't like to have 2 bars on top and bottom, so i switched to the old style,
i guess i'll use the new style if they combine the 2 bars into one
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If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect
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new ion? said:
If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect
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That's exactly what I want
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I think you're talking about 4.1 layout (tablet mode) and 4.2 (phablet) - and as far as I read before you can easily switch between these two somewhere in Asus Settings (or device settings?) Then you should have the old layout with navbar on bottom and on the right status bar (I don't know if they cooked in the Tiles there) :good:

-angel* said:
I think you're talking about 4.1 layout (tablet mode) and 4.2 (phablet) - and as far as I read before you can easily switch between these two somewhere in Asus Settings (or device settings?) Then you should have the old layout with navbar on bottom and on the right status bar (I don't know if they cooked in the Tiles there) :good:
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i think we have in settings a field called "launcher settings" !
and yea, i still use 4.1 launcher because we have the option to lock bottom taskbar when we are playing or whatever we do. :victory:

I'm glad for the 4.1 mode. Played with 4.2 launcher mode for almost an hour, but I just couldn't get used to it. It's just wasting space. Hopefully Asus will keep this in the future too.

cr4zy.b0y said:
i think we have in settings a field called "launcher settings" !
and yea, i still use 4.1 launcher because we have the option to lock bottom taskbar when we are playing or whatever we do. :victory:
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You can lock taskbar on 4.2 mode
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new ion? said:
If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect
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This is also exactly what I want, I hope that Google gives us this layout in a future update!
Did anyone notice when using the 4.1 launcher (the older one), the UI is kind of too high on the screen? The top of my app icons are over the "google" button used to make searches and there's quite a big unused space between the system bar and the bottom apps. Not sure if I'm making any sense. Am I alone to have this issue?

No issues here
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Maybe I'm confused, but I don't really see how this allows us to multitask better. Is there an option to have two apps on the screen at a time or something? I couldn't see any real difference other than layout, so I just switched back to the old layout since I don't really like the new one. Is there anything else that changed?
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Fermion6 said:
Maybe I'm confused, but I don't really see how this allows us to multitask better. Is there an option to have two apps on the screen at a time or something? I couldn't see any real difference other than layout, so I just switched back to the old layout since I don't really like the new one. Is there anything else that changed?
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The idea is just to have a uniform layout across all devices.
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I don't know if any one has tried the old launcher but when i swithed back i couldn't get my weather widget to update. Anyone else run into this issue. Ended up going back to the 4.2.1 launcher because of it.
Got it to work removed the widget, went to apps in the setting and cleared the data and cache then reloaded widget works fine.
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I might be the minority here but I actually love the new layout
I switch the CPU mode by going to the settings. This might be annoying for some but for me, it's not a big deal as I just leave it on performance mode
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Tablet UI

Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Gadzooks1123 said:
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Install the Paranoid Android ROM.
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How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418867

Gadzooks1123 said:
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/

rmkilc said:
The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/
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Except that that is simply not the case.
On phones the navigation buttons never leave the short side of the screen leaving them easily accessible with your right thumb while in landscape. On tablets the nav bar is terrible with the buttons spread out across the bottom while holding your device in landscape. The centred buttons are barely reachable on a 7" tablet like this. On 10" devices unless you are some kind of mutant, bred to be a piano virtuoso, good luck getting your thumbs where they need to go while cradling the tablet in 2 hands. Similarly the top-of-screen based notification pull down is simply not an ergonomic solution to something that you will be doing thousands of times with your device. Again this is not so bad on a device of this size, but is seriously ridiculous on large tablets.
It is all well and good for Google to say that they want users to have the same user experience across all devices, but they do not deliver on that. Given no other option, I would far rather use this tablet in full phone mode, with navigation buttons that never leave the short edge of the screen, than use the new "Tablet UI". I have actually clicked the DPI up to 340 and find the phone UI much easier to use than the default one, with the obvious exception of the full screen notification shade (which just looks ugly on this device). At least though, this configuration would be more condusive to one handed landscape navigation.
So, for me, I am going to keep using the old tablet UI as long as Google leaves the code in there for me to use and hope that they come to their senses one day over at the AOSP and realize that they've actually taken a step backwards in terms of user friendliness.
No need for nay-sayers to jump in when someone asks for a customized user experience. That's the beauty of Android! It isn't a one size fits all, apple-corer OS. The only limit is your imagination, and how much time you want to spend learning and tweaking. I say tweak on, young man, tweak on!

rmkilc said:
The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
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Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/

The ipad has a tablet ui too and its really useful. Less pressing on the back button when navigating thru the settings ap
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csrow said:
Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/
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The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.

Kookas said:
The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.
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Agreed, it was a very inconsistent experience. Also, trying to get expandable notifications to work properly with gestures was a pain.

That's what's great about Android on a Nexus device. You get to choose what you like and everyone will be happy.
No one option is better than another. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean someone else should not be using it.

The OP simply wanted to know if it was possible to use Table UI on the N7 v2 and everyone is on a full blown discussion of who prefers what.
Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45084692
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I recommend trying out LMT (better than the pie control in paranoid/CM). I find it much better than having this blasted button bar using space all the time)
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Apex launcher has a tablet ui setting. For the most part is seems stock just bring the app icons to the bottom in landscape mode along with the app drawer in the upper right corner.